Sabbath Keeping

 “They must realize that the Sabbath is the Lord’s gift to you.” ~ Exodus 16:29 ~

“A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the joyous day of the whole week.” ~ Harriot Ward Beecher  ~

“Fresh glides the brook and blows the gale,
  Yet yonder halts the quiet mill;
    The whirring wheel, the rushing sail
      How motionless and still!
        Six days stern Labour shut the poor
          From nature’s careless banquet-hall;
            The seventh, an Angel opes the door,
              And, smiling, welcomes all!”
   ~William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, Sir Henry Bulwer ~

“This will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and on that day you must deny yourselves.”
~ Leviticus 23:32 ~

“The seventh day this; the jubilee of man:
  London! right well thou know’st the day of prayer:
    Then thy spruce citizen, wash’d artisan,
      And smug apprentice gulp their weekly air:
        The coach of hackney, whiskey, one-horse chair,
          And humblest gig, through sundry suburbs whirl;
            To Hampstead, Brentford, Harrow, make repair;
              Till the tired jade the wheel forgets to hurl,
                Provoking envious gibe from each pedestrian churl. ~ Lord Bryon ~

“The Sundaies of man’s life,
  Thredded together on time’s string,
    Make bracelets to adorn the wife
      Of the eternal, glorious King.
        On Sunday heaven’s gates stand ope;
          Blessings are plentiful and rife.
            More plentiful than hope.”       ~ George Herbert ~

“The Sabbath is not a day to feast our bodies, but to feed our souls.” ~ Marie Josephine ~

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.” ~ Exodus 20:8 ~

“Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.” ~ Maria Jane McIntosh ~

“He that remembers not to keep the Christian Sabbath at the beginning of the week will be in danger to forget before the end of the week that he is a Christian.” ~ Sir Edmund Turner ~

“O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through Jordan! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been  invaluable.” ~ Dr. Samuel Wilberforce ~